I’m working with a new crew this trip. Their job vacancies had been advertised ‘must be fully vaccinated’, whatever that is supposed to mean these days?
As Master, I’m the ship’s medical officer as well. As such, I am privy to the private medical information of those on board. But I can tell you now, I’ve noticed a distinct change in attitudes compared to even 4 weeks ago. I didn’t even have to check. These people openly tell you they’re not ‘vaccinated’.
Shipping companies are so desperate for personnel willing and able to work, that they can’t enforce their own vax policies.
Of course, I knew that, sailing as an unvaccinated person. But the shortages of people willing and fit to do the work must now be chronic, as every rank on board is now technically ‘out of date’ when it comes to boosters. And nobody cares anyway. There is no energy left for fear or zealotry. We’re done.
What was recently only whispered to me in confidence, is now boastful craic in the mess room.
People speak candidly about their mother’s stroke, post-vaccination, or their young-healthy uncle’s recent unexplained heart attack. Nobody objects. A few nod, knowingly.
The Ukrainian flag has been removed from the harbour office, and that famed Christian banner – the Union Jack- once again flies at full mast.
Work trips out to Singapore, that previously would have been sought-after ‘jollies’ on the company dime, are no longer desirable. So much so, that people are quitting their job in refusal to travel there. People are so disgusted with the authoritarianism in Asia that hearts are hardening. There is a recognition that those governments are inhuman, and an instinctive tribal difference is clear in people’s minds. It feels like the emotional preparation a Naval officer might feel when sighting an enemy mast come into focus on a distant horizon.
The triple-jabbed are – quote: ‘nae doing that again – I’m no a f***in’ pin cushion’.
We laugh at Monkey Pox.
People are turning off the news and watching anything else. Those weird grinning idiots on the BBC who run stories all day about how ‘We know it’s really sunny for a change in England, but you should all actually be slitting your wrists and terrified with guilt over skin cancer, climate change, food waste, blah, blah, blah’.
The ‘don’t forget to be miserable’ message is relentless.
Whatever they say, we now instantly believe the opposite will be true:
Perhaps it is the younger average age of my crew this time, but the philosophical undertone of conversations has a much more pro-anarchist sentiment at its core now. The idea of ‘opting out’ of the NHS is discussed as a reasonable and appealing prospect. The collapse of the welfare state, post-furlough, is seen as literally inevitable by most now. There are no ideologues here.
There is an air of revolution in a way. One that I’ve only previously encountered on libertarian chatrooms, or in military bars in South Carolina. A general acceptance by many that the State, at the very least, offers nothing to us. The working man places zero hope of improvement in his future, at the hands of the state. We know none of us will ever see a state pension worth anything. There is gallows humour at the petrol pump.
The English ‘booed’ Boris Johnson at the Queen’s jubilee. The Gaia worshipper Charles leaked his disapproval of immigration policies and thereby entered politics. Does he know? The pantomime continues.
History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly rhymes, said someone, once.
We are living on the edge. And I’m very grateful for it. I can’t wait for the house of cards to come falling down. We’ve been on this path for a long time. When you understand the context, you realise that we are living in an age that will bring a final showdown. One between the godless, relativist French revolution and the ultimate refinement of the Judeo-Christian ideal of individual sovereignty, charity, and empiricism. Truth will win, as it must.
It will win because we who care for it, will stand firm. As our forebears did, during the English civil war, the American revolutionary war, the Second World War, the reformation and since the dawn of Judaism and Christianity. Lions be damned.
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Things I learned this week:
· Don’t lose control.
· I have more power than I thought. And I’m not alone in that.
· Use your power, all of it, to overcome the tide.
· The highest tide accompanies the lowest lows.
What I earned this week:
· More business from my first client.
· Greater respect from my wife.
· A decent mortgage rate, locked in for 5 years.
Assistance I’m grateful for this week:
· My wife and my family.
· My subscribers and social media supporters.
· My crew and colleagues.
· The amazing power of communication via the internet.
Predictions I’m making this week:
· Inflation and shortages will continue to worsen because they are deliberate policies.
· Trust in the globalist capture of corporations and governments will collapse sooner than we thought possible.
· The Scots, the English and the Americans will resurrect the ideals of the reformation and the Scottish enlightenment.
· Monarchy and anarchy will reassert themselves as viable options, as people embrace the slow collapse of the welfare state. The British monarchy will have to remove Charles to survive.
My recommendations this week:
· If your company is required to advertise job vacancies as requiring ‘full vaccination’, you should specify which vaccine is required and why. The science no longer supports this covid stuff. Only politics. Make sure the right people get the blame when this all falls apart.
· Realise that the car going five miles per hour slower than the limit is more likely to have a serious accident than the one going five miles an hour over it. Take as much liberty as you can get, and don’t ask permission. Morality is the law, and God’s law is universal. If your government falls short of trustworthiness and fairness, then it will soon lose all authority in the minds of the governed.
· Rest assured, fewer people believe the ‘narrative’ now than you might think. They’re all hiding in plain sight.
· Get skills and do the hard things that nobody else can do or wants to do. Then they will just be grateful when you show up. For example, everyone loves bacon, but nobody likes the smell of pig mess. That’s why pig farmers are wealthy. Do not fear the bureaucrats. Their power lies mostly in bluff and intimidation. God is truth, and he is on our side. The DEMOS has power.
· Become an independent contractor and liberate your employer from having to mandate anything on you. I did it. And I’ve never been so happy and engaged. (Or tired).
· Persist. Speak the truth. Fear not.
This is the eternal battle between good and evil. You are fighting it; with your life. Winning requires faith and discipline. Nihilists have neither of those.